[NTLUG:Discuss] Email client capabilities

[Michael Barnes]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>wrote:

> What I'm seeing
> (that I don't like) is that, when you reply in Thunderbird it shows the
> original message as text even if it was HTML and you have set
> Thunderbird to compose in HTML.  I can't seem to find a way to change
> this behavior which is why I'm looking around (if someone can tell me
> how to fix that I'd just as soon stick with Thunderbird).
>

This may be what you are looking for.

Edit > Preferences >  Composition > General > Send Options > HTML Domains
Put your recipient's address in the box.

That's the only place I can find that references format.  In my experience,
Thunderbird always wanted to reply in the same format as the received
message, no matter what I did to make it plain text.

Another trick I have used, albeit a little annoying, is to create a second
account configured to HTML.  When you reply/compose a message, you can
select at the top which account you want to send from and your message will
take on the properties of that account.

Sometimes I wish someone would sit down and talk all the good features from
evolution and Thunderbird and combine them.  I would definitely change to
that.

HTH,
Michael